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But I think.. Atleast in in the NT family (Windows2000/XP) it'll do something like MrBabis's test did..
In windows you'll see a folder with a name like CSHOFG~F
But that's an educated guess, nothing more..

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I vaguely remember this from a long time ago, but cannot recall the context

If you really want to use these reserved names you have to add something such as con1 or conA. What I am saying is that the reservation is specific not generic.

So, if you are importing a file from another OS you have to write a line of code to change it. We decided on the suffix method for consistency reasons. I really cannot remember but I think our file was coming from an AS/400 or a 3090 mainframe. I know it took me a little while to figure out what was going wrong

What if you were to mount the FAT filesystem in linux and mkdir con, then boot into windows What would that do?

Ok, why not.

Booted to Fc3, mounted a FAT32 win 98 disk.

Attempted to create a directory named con, it would not let me
“mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/windows/con': Invalid argument”

so, did the same thing except made directory convent, no problems.

Then, accessed a samba server from linux, made directory con then accessed the samba shares from XP-pro-sp2, no problems, no changes, accessed .exe files without problems. Through ME, ( on the same network, ) no problems, no alterations, IBID.

ah the good ol days 'con\con'. you could make an http page on your computer with a file:// link to a box with a shared directory running 98...add \con\con to the end, click the link and bye bye 98 boxen. sniff, sniff. they just dont make'em like that anymore.

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# Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders:
# CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL

Now I know for a /fact/ that you can create directories named AUX COM1 COM2 etc on a win2k box using POSIX. I have seen it done, and I have had to remove them from a compromised box in the past. So that would mean the same technique can be used to create a CON dir too.

If I have time later today I'll tag one of our internal test boxes and create a CON dir using the methods that most taggers use.

*EDIT*

Followed a link to this thread from here and responded before I noticed the date of last response. Sorry, but my offer still stands if I have time.

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